Tag: Capitalism

• September 12, 2023

  Kissinger’s Secret Memo to Nixon on Chile

  Let’s talk realpolitik. This is an internal memo dated November 4, 1970 from Henry Kissinger to President Nixon telling him to reject the State Department’s recommendation that the U.S. seek a modus vivendi with Chile’s newly elected President, Salvador Allende. In an eight-page secret briefing paper, Kissinger emphasized to Nixon that “the election of Allende…
• December 18, 2020

  Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein

  Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949): Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us…
• July 27, 2020

  Henry George: Progress and Poverty

  Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The book is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward…
• July 29, 2019

  The One Constant in Communist, Capitalist, and/or Liberal Democratic Societies

  Hi. I want to share an interesting theory about the modern world: Communist states and Liberal Capitalist societies are actually quite similar. At their core, they both share the theory of a privileged elite class who must rule over the masses. The systems are actually more alike than they are unalike. This is obviously an…
• July 23, 2019

  Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”

  In 1957, The USSR launched Sputnik to orbit the Earth. Two years later, in 1959, the USSR orbited the moon with Luna 3. By April of 1961, the USSR put the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin. The U.S. needed to respond. In spring 1961, President John F. Kennedy approved a mission to land a…
• May 29, 2019

  Heilbroner: Capitalism vs. Communism

  Hi. I came across this article written in 1967 by Robert L. Heilbroner and figured I would share it. It’s a bit outdated, but it has some interesting thoughts. You tell me? The Revolution of Rising Expectations: Rhetoric and Reality Is the United States fundamentally opposed to economic development? This question is outrageous. … There…
• May 22, 2019

  Zuboff and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  From DemocracyNow! – 1 March 2019 Corporations have created a new kind of marketplace out of our private human experiences. That is the conclusion of an explosive new book that argues big tech platforms like Facebook and Google are elephant poachers, and our personal data is ivory tusks. Author Shoshana Zuboff writes in “The Age…
• December 17, 2018

  Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba

  Hi. I wanted to summarize an article from the Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 34, Part 2, May 2002: “Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba” by Louis A. Perez Jr. For more than forty years the United States has pursued a policy designed to remove Fidel Castro from…
• July 11, 2018

  Milton Friedman on the Social Responsibility of Business – To Increase its Profits!

  Hi, Recently, I wrote an article titled Examples of the Inherent Corrupt Nature of Corporations quoting Bakan’s conclusion that corporations are inherently corrupt because they are legally bound to place profit over everything, even the public good and provided relevant and timely examples in support. I’ve also written a few articles criticizing corporate hegemony: Under Oath,…
• June 11, 2018

  Examples of the Inherent Corrupt Nature of Corporations

  Hi, In 2004, Joel Bakan published a book titled: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Balkan argued that Corporations are inherently corrupt because they are legally bound to place profit over everything, even the public good.  The book was turned into a successful film and a movement was launched. I agree with Bakan’s…